Call to track evicted migrants comes as volunteers say some end up being placed back into the same shelters they left.
Dozens of migrants line up outside the State of Illinois Department of Human Services building at North and California avenues in Chicago on March 28, 2024, in hopes of receiving assistance or documents. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration could soon be required to track and share more details about migrants the city evicts from its shelters under an ordinance aldermen advanced that is gaining support at City Hall.
In addition to eviction data, the ordinance also would force the city to share information about conditions at each shelter, including how many residents are staying there with exemptions, how many residents are back in shelters after being evicted and how many grievances residents have filed. In an interview earlier this month, Johnson’s deputy chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, expressed some consternation about publicly announcing migrants’ personal details, such as pregnancy or disability.
“This is not a perfect system, we’ve got to make it better,” Rodriguez said. “We can always do better when it comes to transparency, and I think this is a step forward.” “I’ve built scores of shelters over the course — in the first 10 months of my administration. This has been an unprecedented response, and there is no other model in this country right now that can stand up to the model that we’ve built in Chicago,” he said.
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